Presents a study which assessed the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) criteria, using ethnicity- and sex-specific cutoff values for central obesity in Korea. Research design and methods; Age-adjusted prevalence of the metabolic syndrome; Prevalence of metabolic syndrome for Korean men and women; Feature of the IDF criteria.

Background: Despite the high prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the Canadian Aboriginal population, it is unknown whether the current thresholds for body mass index and waist circumference derived from white populations are appropriate for Aboriginal people. We compared the risk of...

Background:There are three commonly used definitions of the metabolic syndrome, making scientific studies hard to compare. The aim of this study was to investigate agreement in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome defined by three different definitions and to analyze definition and gender...

In a University Hospital of Southern India, 255 men and 91 women with diabetes died during a 18-month period. Their age at onset (diagnosis) of diabetes, known duration of diabetes, age at death and major morbidity at death were studied. Life tables (1998-2002) of reference populations (rural...

OBJECTIVE -- The metabolic syndrome is a general term given to a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors that may consist of different phenotype combinations. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the different combinations of factors that make up the metabolic syndrome...

Prevalence of both metabolic syndrome (MS) and hyperuricemia are increasing. However, findings regarding their relationships are inconsistent. We aimed to explore correlations between MS and hyperuricemia in a large Chinese population, emphasizing the impacts from gender and age. Data analyses...

Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that effects of cardiovascular risk factors may vary depending on sex and age. In this study, we assessed the associations of metabolic syndrome (MetS) with sarcopenia and its components in older adults, and examined whether the associations vary by sex...

OBJECTIVE -- We explored the relationship between A1C and insulin regimen, duration of diabetes, age, sex, and BMI as well as the differences between clinical mean A1C levels at pediatric diabetes clinics in Sweden. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-- Data from 18,651 clinical outpatient visits (1,033...

Despite substantial progress in the study of diabetes, important questions remain about its comorbidities and clinical heterogeneity. To explore these issues, we develop a framework allowing for the first time to quantify nation-wide risks and their age- and sex-dependence for each diabetic...